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The Amerigo Vespucci, which Italians call the world's most beautiful ship, is taking a taste of its homeland on a round-the-world tour, with temporary expositions at several stops showcasing ...
Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
The Amerigo Vespucci, after the modernization works, in the harbor of La Rochelle, 2018. The three steel masts are 50, 54 and 43 metres high, and carry sails totaling 2,824 m 2 (30,400 sq ft). The Amerigo Vespucci has 26 sails – square sails , staysails , and jibs : all are traditional canvas sails.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), [2] [4] Italian explorer Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470–1516), [ 5 ] Portuguese or Spanish navigator and explorer, appointed in 1512 following the death of Vespucci [ 6 ]
In 1497, Vespucci sailed with Spain and left Cadiz, Spain on his first journey where he was sailing through the West Indies. [4] In the "Letter from Seville", he wrote that "we sailed for about thirteen hundred leagues to that land from the city of Cadiz" [ 5 ] However, the voyage in 1497 was to reach the West Indies instead of Brazil.
It has been argued that the two prints in the Nova reperta series on America of which one shows Amerigo Vespucci's first encounter with the New World and the four symbolic prints making up the Americae retectio series were aimed at showing the presumed important role played by Florence in the discovery of America as Vespucci was a Florentine.
Spain claimed the Bahamas after Columbus' arrival on the islands — his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere may have been on the Bahamian island of San Salvador. The Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, for whom the Americas are named, came on a Spanish charter and spent four months exploring The Bahamas in 1499–1500. He mapped a portion ...
In 1508 a special position was created for Vespucci, the 'pilot major' (chief of navigation), to train new pilots for ocean voyages. Vespucci, who made at least two voyages to the New World, worked at the Casa de Contratación until his death in 1512. The population of Seville in the 16th century was around three per cent Black people. [79]